Martin Buber's Dialogical Thought as a Philosophy of Action

This book promotes a philosophical revival of Buber's dialogical thought by repositioning it as a philosophy of action, departing from a long-established consensus that narrowly viewed it as a post-Kantian epistemology. Based on careful analysis of his writings, the book's main thrust is to reconstruct Buber's argument that dialogue is the perfected form of action, and a perfect action is necessarily dialogical. This reconstruction renders Buber's dialogical thought pertinent to contemporary analytic philosophy by situating it within central discussions in the field of philosophy of action.

Repositions Buber's dialogical thought as a philosophy of action Reconstructs Buber's argument that dialogue is the perfected form of action Demonstrates the relevance of Buber's dialogical thought to contemporary analytic philosophy

Autorentext

Dr. Asaf Ziderman, a scholar of Modern Jewish thought, earned his PhD from Tel Aviv University's School of Philosophy in 2019. His current research focuses on a philosophical analysis of intimacy, meaning, identity, and belonging within 20th-century Jewish thought.

Klappentext

This book promotes a philosophical revival of Buber s dialogical thought by repositioning it as a philosophy of action, departing from a long-established consensus that narrowly viewed it as a post-Kantian epistemology. Based on careful analysis of his writings, the book s main thrust is to reconstruct Buber s argument that dialogue is the perfected form of action, and a perfect action is necessarily dialogical. This reconstruction renders Buber's dialogical thought pertinent to contemporary analytic philosophy by situating it within central discussions in the field of philosophy of action.

Inhalt

1: Rekindling Buber: From Philosophical Eclipse to Potential Revival, An Introduction.- 2: The Centrality of Action in Buber's Dialogical Thought.- 3: Chaos, Abyss and Whirl: Ambivalence as the Seedbed of Action.- 4: From Above and the Deep: Decision as the First Phase of Action.- 5: With one's whole being: 'Unity' in I and Thou.- 6: 'Unity' as a Dimension of Action in 'Images of Good and Evil' and Concurrent Essays.- 7: The Café Encounter: Unraveling the Unity-Dialogue Nexus.- 8: Beyond Anscombe and Davidson: A Buberian Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy of Action, Conclusion and Coda.